Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Graham Warwick
French startup Ascendance Flight Technologies has closed a €10 million ($12 million) funding round.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
French government and industry reacted angrily to Australian decision to cancel sub deal, for nuclear sub pact with U.S./UK.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Guy Norris
GA-ASI and UK Civil Aviation Authority released new details of first point-to-point UAS flight utilizing UK airways structure.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
A Boeing 757-derived flying testbed being developed to support Tempest FCAS, will also be made available for other flight-tests.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
A SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully launched Inspiration4, the first all-civilian, non-government human spaceflight, from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, to begin its three-day mission in low Earth orbit.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Rolls-Royce has completed the first flight of its electric-powered Spirit of Innovation aircraft, also known as Accel.
Emerging Technologies

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Space Force wants a nerve center to oversee space electromagnetic warfare by 2027.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Europe must strengthen its defense cooperation and be more willing to act on global crises, said EC President Ursula von der Leyen.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Michael Bruno
U.S. private equity firm AE Industrial Partners is rolling up UAV-related businesses under the UAV Factory brand.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Brian Everstine
Air Force expects to demonstrate amphibious takeoff-and-landing capability for MC-130J Commando II in less than 1.5 years.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
Veteran NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei may set a new record of 353 days for the longest U.S. human spaceflight.
Space

By Michael Bruno
Recently public Spire Global, a nanosat operator for cloud-enabled data analytics, is buying sat-based S-AIS services startup ExactEarth.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA has awarded five companies $146 million in contracts to develop and evaluate lunar Human Landing System concepts beyond the planned Artemis III landing.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Israel’s Urban Aeronautics has secured an initial $10 million of the at least $100 million it needs to raise through a Series A funding round to support development of the CityHawk vertical-takeoff air taxi.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Chen Chuanren
Less than a week after firing its first locally developed cruise missile, North Korea has again fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the East Sea, while South Korea tested its new SLBM hours later.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Maxim Pyadushkin
The new satellites join a OneWeb constellation that now numbers 322 spacecraft in low Earth orbit, about half of its initial constellation.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
BAE Systems has teamed up with UK uncrewed air system developer Malloy Aeronautics to develop a heavy lift multicopter for the littoral mission.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Shareholders in Atlas Crest Investment approved the blank-check company’s reverse merger with urban air mobility startup Archer Aviation in a Sept. 14 vote.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Rolls-Royce is to provide the power and propulsion systems for the modular jet training aircraft being developed by UK start-up Aeralis.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jen DiMascio
For about five years, Capella’s products have been provided primarily to governments and large research institutions. Now the company is widening the access to a subset of its images.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Moog is latest to strike deal with the U.S. Air Force Agility Prime program to explore eVTOL technology.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Italy has joined with the UK to develop the Radar 2 version of the Eurofighter’s AESA radar.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
China’s “strategic breakout" requires a different approach to deterrence, according to the head of U.S. Strategic Command.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Graham Warwick
The Japanese startup has advanced its plans to operate an urban air taxi service during World Expo 2025 Osaka Kansai.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Leonardo has established team of UK suppliers to support AW149 medium rotorcraft bid for UK New Medium Helicopter requirement.
Budget, Policy & Operations